COO

Emails discuss a budget and fund transfer for watchman services involving a complaint lodged with the office of the CFO and executive meetings with senior city officials including the Chief of Police, COO, and CFO.

“a budget and fund transfer for Watchmen Services 91 million... based on these emails that at some point after a complaint was lodged with the office of the CFO, there were executive meetings arranged and held. These executive meetings included office of the Chief of Police, the COO, the CFO, and others...”

An email from Sean Bolhuis dated 29 May 2025 requests additional funding specifically for ad hoc services, addressed to COO, CFO, and Chief of Police.

“this is an email from Sean Bolhuis. Last time you said your report to him. And the message, the email is to COO, CFO, amongst others, Chief of Police. The date is 29 May 2025, 02:13 pm. And what we see there is, I think as you said, it is part of some sort of effort to request funding or additional funding, and specifically for ad hoc services.”

Ad hoc security services requests were assessed through a security assessment and only approved after budget scrutiny and necessary approvals.

“We dealt with adhoc individually and provided services only with the necessary approvals, including documentation... we would receive a request from a service delivery department that they need security services at a specific place... assess that request... by doing a security assessment... if we agree with them, then we determine the type of security that needs to be placed... they need to provide us with a GLO or the service delivery component within the city, falling mainly under the COO, would have to look for money... last resort would be to approach the CFO to ensure that there is money for this...”